"No grudge, no feud, you just bully the weak because you're strong? Hahaha!!"
But at Xu Sheng's words, Wu Dao burst out laughing as if he had just heard the world's greatest joke, his tone dripping with scorn.
"Putting everything else aside, let's just talk about the founder of your Jingzhe Bureau—the Demon Suppression Emperor, the Great Li Ancestor.
Back when he was conquering the nations, he plundered enemy states, slaughtered entire cities, and buried alive far more than a million of those 'innocents' you speak of. The families he destroyed and the lives he ruined are simply innumerable.
Was *that* preying on the weak?
After Dali was founded, its laws became exceedingly harsh.
Countless crimes were punishable by the extermination of three, or even nine, generations of one's clan.
Were those caught up in collective punishment innocent?
The rigid order of ruler and subject, father and son.
